OUTSIDE PLANKING. Such are the wales, the plank-sheer, the garboard-strakes, and the like.
OUTWARD. A vessel is said to be entered outwards or inwards according as she is entered at the custom-house to depart for, or as having arrived from, foreign parts.
OUTWARD CHARGES. Pilotage and other dues incurred from any port: the reverse of inward charges.
OUTWORKS. Works included in the scheme of defence of a place, but outside the main rampart; if "detached," they are moreover outside the glacis.
OUVRE L'ŒIL. A mark on French charts over supposed dangers.
OVER AND UNDER TURNS. Terms applied to the passing of an earing, besides its inner and outer turns.
OVER-ANENT. Opposite to.
OVER-BEAR. One ship overbears another if she can carry more sail in a fresh wind.
OVERBOARD. The state of any person or thing in the sea which had been in a ship.—Thrown overboard also means cast adrift by the captain; withdrawal of countenance and support.
OVER-BOYED. Said of a ship when the captain and majority of the quarter-deck officers are very young.